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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:29 am

The real answer is all those annoying pseudo-intellectuals at parties (ie. Myself) will move on to "If the tips of scissors always travel twice as fast as the base then what happens if I shut them at the speed of light"
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Michelle Chau
 
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 1:09 am

The real answer is all those annoying pseudo-intellectuals at parties (ie. Myself) will move on to "If the tips of scissors always travel twice as fast as the base then what happens if I shut them at the speed of light"

I assume you mean close to the speed of light, the idea being the tips would travel faster than the speed of light. It couldn't happen because it would require infinite energy to close the scissors fast enough that the tips would be travelling at the speed of light. Also given the friction that scissor blades naturally have with each other, odds are one or both of them would break long before they ever reached that point.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:43 am

The immovable object will stay where it is and the force will move around it.
I imagine it to be like a *http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff398/Papafern1/slipstream.jpg, were the force will simple just move around it without ever stopping.
*very basic
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:16 am

Dunno what'll happen the next time it happens, but the last time it happened...



...I was born B)
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Post » Sat May 12, 2012 10:30 pm

Both are destroyed.

Simple equation: Positive infinite number X. Negative infinite number -X. X-X is 0.
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